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Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt

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Title
Leaves of Grass
Author
Whitman, Walt
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Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
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Near Fine
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[Camden, NJ], 1889. Near Fine. One of only 300 copies of Leaves of Grass printed in commemoration of Whitman's 70th birthday, boldly signed by Whitman on the title page, with six portraits of Whitman, including the famous original mounted frontispiece photograph with a butterfly resting on his finger. In publisher's flexible leather wallet-style binding with flap extending around the fore edge and with pocked on inside back cover (BAL's A binding), all edges gilt. Near Fine with rubbing to leather at joints and flaking to spine, inner hinges slightly exposed though sound, several light sporadic pencil markings throughout. A beautiful copy. BAL 21435.
Cybernetics; or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Actualitees scientifiques et industrielles; 1053

Cybernetics; or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Actualitees scientifiques et industrielles; 1053 by Wiener, Norbert

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Cybernetics; or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Actualitees scientifiques et industrielles; 1053
Author
Wiener, Norbert
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Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Cambridge, MA: The Technology Press, 1948. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. 194, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine with lean to spine, light wear and toning to covers, contemporary bookseller ticket inside front cover, and ink inscription to title page. Light toning to contents and several penciled lines to margins. A nice copy of this foundational work in the field of cybernetics, a term coined by the author.
AMPHITHEATRIDION. HOC EST, PARVUM AMPHITHEATRUM, CUI PAVCA MUNDI THETRA COMPARARE VIX ULLUM ANTEPONERE AMPHITHEATRUM POSSIS. IN QUATUOR PARTES DIVISUM

AMPHITHEATRIDION. HOC EST, PARVUM AMPHITHEATRUM, CUI PAVCA MUNDI THETRA COMPARARE VIX ULLUM ANTEPONERE AMPHITHEATRUM POSSIS. IN QUATUOR PARTES DIVISUM by BOTERO, GIOVANNI

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AMPHITHEATRIDION. HOC EST, PARVUM AMPHITHEATRUM, CUI PAVCA MUNDI THETRA COMPARARE VIX ULLUM ANTEPONERE AMPHITHEATRUM POSSIS. IN QUATUOR PARTES DIVISUM
Author
BOTERO, GIOVANNI
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Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Coloniae Agrippinae [Cologne]: Apud Lambertum Andreae, 1597. FIRST EDITION. 208 x 160 mm. (8 1/4 x 6 1/4"). 26 p.l., 147, [1] (blank) pp. Once splendid--and still appealing--18th century calf, elaborately gilt, covers framed by wide palmette roll and narrow flower-and-bead roll, central panel outlined in black paint, large central lozenge composed of myriad small floral tools, leaves, and lancets, this enclosed by a frame of garlands, ornate fleurons at corners, raised bands, spine compartments with decorative fleuron centerpiece (once silver but now mostly black), marbled pastedowns, hinges reinforced with archival tape (older repair to head of spine). With double-page world map, double-page map of the Ottoman Empire, and three folding maps of Europe, Asia, and Africa. VD16 B 6807; USTC 611221. Half-inch crack to head of both joints, binding a bit rubbed, with minor loss of gilt, first two leaves mounted on stubs, but an excellent copy, clean and fresh internally with well-preserved maps, and the binding with nothing approaching a serious defect. This is the very rare Latin epitome of Botero's "Le Relationi Universali" (1591), the most successful descriptive geography of the world at that time, translated here from the Italian vernacular of the original into the international language of contemporary scholarship. In his Address to the Reader, Botero cites his desire to make the key parts of his survey more widely available to readers "in a smaller and more comfortable form to be carried around, and omitting the Geographical plates (lest their price should frighten away the purchasers)." Happily, he chose to retain the maps for this edition. The contents here discuss the government, wealth, and demographics of territories ruled by the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian archdukes, the Pope, and the kings of France, England, Denmark, Sweden, and Poland. Extensive attention is given to the domains of the King of Spain and to the Ottoman Empire. In Asia, Botero examines Magnus Chan (Tartary), China, Siam, three regions of India, Japan, and Mongolia. In Africa, Botero discusses the kingdom of Mutapa, the Sharif of Morocco, and the realm of the mythical Prester John, an African king supposedly converted to Christianity (the land is, in fact, Ethiopia). The lavish binding here suggests that our copy was owned by a person of means and taste, rather than a poor scholar. A former Jesuit priest, Giovanni Botero (1544-1617) was a political philosopher and diplomat whose writings challenged Machiavelli's "The Prince" by arguing for adherence to Christian ethics over power for power's sake, and prefigured Malthus' population doctrine by attributing the growth and greatness of cities to the relationship between means of subsistence and the rate of human reproduction. Our first edition of this work is extremely scarce: USTC and OCLC find a total of seven copies in libraries worldwide (none in North America), and RBH records none at auction..
Memoire pour le Sieur Bergasse, dans la cause du Sieur Kornmann, contre le Sieur de Beaumarchais, et contre le Prince de Nassau

Memoire pour le Sieur Bergasse, dans la cause du Sieur Kornmann, contre le Sieur de Beaumarchais, et contre le Prince de Nassau by Nicolas Bergasse

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Memoire pour le Sieur Bergasse, dans la cause du Sieur Kornmann, contre le Sieur de Beaumarchais, et contre le Prince de Nassau
Author
Nicolas Bergasse
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Paris: s.i., 1788. Very Good. [Paris?] s.i., 1788. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm); original stitched self-wrappers, margins untrimmed, retaining the two original waste wrappers (see below), loose as issued; viii,139pp. Light wrinkling and wear, contemporary signature at bottom edge of title page, else a Very Good, marvelously preserved example. Account of the Kornmann Affair by the prosector Nicolas Bergasse (1750–1832), a disciple of Franz Mesmer who became an important figure of the Monarchien Party at the beginning of the French Revolution a year later. This exposé of the Kornmann Affair, which has all the salient elements of a Zola novel, was widely disseminated and brought Bergasse the celebrity that launched his political career. Madame Kornmann was a wealthy fifteen-year-old heiress when she was married off, against her wishes, to her husband the Alsatian banker Guillaume Kornmann, bringing with her a considerably dowry. The marriage was a difficult one from the beginning and Madame Kornmann began an affair with one of her husband's associates, Daudet de Jossan. Kornmann, who benefited greatly from his business with Daudet, turned a blind eye. That is, until Daudet ceased to be useful to him and he found himself with an unfaithful wife who refused to hand her dowry over to him. She was also pregnant with her third child. Still, Kornmann resolved to throw her in prison. The Prince of Nassau, aware of these sordid events, turned to his friend, the author of the three Figaro plays and an influential politician, Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais. After reviewing the situation, Beaumarchais promptly went to the chief of police and had Madame Kornmann released to a maison d'accouchement to give birth. Kornmann, in the meantime, lawyered up, hiring Bergasse as his representative, and the present pamphlet was circulated widely to denigrate Beaumarchais' reputation for meddling in Kornmann's affairs. Bergasse and Kornmann were eventually condemned for slander, but the damage to Beaumarchais had been done. Of special note on this copy, however, is the rare presence of the original wrappers (one could anachronistically call them vernacular dust jackets), fashioned out of two different unrecorded Memento Mori issued the same year as the Kornmann Affair. The pamphlet would have been wrapped in these castoff job printed broadsides for distribution, to be removed before sale. That a copy of this common pamphlet retains its original temporary binding is exceptionally rare. Both broadsides employ the oversized woodcut initial "V" decorated with a death's head surrounded by little sperm-like raindrops. The exterior Memento, printed on pale blue paper, announces the obsequies for Jean-Baptiste-Rene de Regnonval de Courcelle, a priest and canon to the Congregation of France. The interior Memento, printed on white paper, announces the burial of Georges-François Vualon (Vaulon?), a counselor to the king and former head of the Bureau for the Poor, as well as the president of the grenier a sel, a network of salt granaries significant as a tax source until the Revolution. While the pamphlet itself is common (denuded of its temporary wrappers), we find no copies of either Memento mori on the market or OCLC as of August, 2025. For an English-language summation of the Kornmann Affair, see Joseph Sungolowsky's biography Beaumarchais (1974), pp. 20–21.
Le Berger Fidele

Le Berger Fidele by Battista Guarini; Antoine de Torche [trans.]; Jacobus Harrewyn [illus.]

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Le Berger Fidele
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Battista Guarini; Antoine de Torche [trans.]; Jacobus Harrewyn [illus.]
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
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Very Good-
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Brusselles: Jean de Smedt, 1705. Very Good-. Brusselles: Chez Jean de Smedt, a la Conversion de St. Augustin, 1705. 16mo (13cm.); full contemporary roan, gilt spine in five compartments, all edges red, marbled endpapers; [16],471,[1]pp.; engraved frontispiece and five full-page illus. signed in text by Jacobus Harrewyn. Leather rather worn and dried with shallow losses at spine ends, rear free flyleaf and endpaper torn with loss, brief biopredation to bottom margin of final leaf of text slightly affecting text, contemporary ownership inscription to front flyleaf, else a Good to Very Good example. Bilingual edition of the Italian author's oft-reprinted tragicomic poem set in Arcadia, nicely illustrated with bucolic scenes by the Dutch engraver Jacobus Harrewyn (1660-1727).
The Terrible People

The Terrible People by Edgar Wallace

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The Terrible People
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Edgar Wallace
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Very Good-. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth lettered in black; [6],336pp. Margins a bit rubbed and worn, spine a shade toned and ends frayed, top textblock edge foxed, else a Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Crime novel with elements of horror by the prolific journalist and author Edgar Wallace (1875-1932), best known for developing the screenplay that would become "King Kong," though Wallace himself died before its completion.
Queens Walk in the Dusk

Queens Walk in the Dusk by Thomas Burnett Swann; Jeff Jones [illus.]

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Queens Walk in the Dusk
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Thomas Burnett Swann; Jeff Jones [illus.]
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780930068028
Condition
Very Good
Description
Forest Park: Heritage Press, 1977. Very Good. Forest Park: Heritage Press, 1977. Limited First Edition, numbered 940 of 2000 copies on colophon at back. Octavo; 139pp. Nine tipped-in full color illustrations, all present. In slightly-too-short clear jacket. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Boards lightly shelfworn with a few faint scuffs to cloth and a bit of fading along edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Part of the author's Latium Trilogy.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Three Tenant Families by Agee, James and Walker Evans

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Three Tenant Families
Author
Agee, James and Walker Evans
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Revised edition. Evans, Walker. Originally published in 1941, this revised edition includes a new foreword by Evans plus additional photographs. First printing of the reissue, inscribed by Evans, perhaps or probably to the novelist: “Tom Berger | with pleasure | Walker Evans.” Fine in a near fine jacket [Kingston 14].
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No-No Nse-Nse. Limericks . . . Meta-Fours . . . and Clerihews . . . With seventeen apropos illustrations by Henrik Drescher by WILLIAMS, Jonathan

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No-No Nse-Nse. Limericks . . . Meta-Fours . . . and Clerihews . . . With seventeen apropos illustrations by Henrik Drescher
Author
WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Seller
James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Fine copy
Description
Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press, 1993. First edition of this collection of bawdy nonsense. Limited to 150 copies printed on handmade Sekishu paper and signed by the printer/publisher. Williams has annotated the colophon page: "Highlands Copy / No. 64 - 4/JW. Fine copy. 12mo, original pictorial wrappers. Fine copy.
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The Cod Head by WILLIAMS, William Carlos

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The Cod Head
Author
WILLIAMS, William Carlos
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James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
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Faint thumb-size stain on front page, otherwise a near-fine copy, preserved in a full cloth clamshell box with a leather label o
Description
(No place, but San Francisco, CA): The Harvest Press, (no date but 1932). First edition, revised from previous periodical publication appearances. According to the bibliographer, there were 125 copies printed; this one however is a variant of 100 copies printed "for the friends of Milton Abernethy." Wallace notes only a signed issue, which is described as having "Gray-green rough paper covers" and a "white aper label printed in black." The present copy is unsigned, and it is not bound. Wallace A14 (describing the "First (signed) edition.. Faint thumb-size stain on front page, otherwise a near-fine copy, preserved in a full cloth clamshell box with a leather label on the spine. 8vo, four-page leaflet. Faint thumb-size stain on front page, otherwise a near-fine copy, preserved in a full cloth clamshell box with a leather label on the spine.
THE CHARM: A MAGAZINE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS

THE CHARM: A MAGAZINE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS by (Cundall, Joseph). Craik, Dinah Marie (Miss Mulock)

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THE CHARM: A MAGAZINE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS
Author
(Cundall, Joseph). Craik, Dinah Marie (Miss Mulock)
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Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
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London: Addey and Co, 1852. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. THE CHARM: A MAGAZINE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS London: 1852 -1854. (Cundall, Joseph). (Craik, Dinah Marie Mulock). THE CHARM: A MAGAZINE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS London: Addey and Co, 1852 -1854. An almost, presumed complete run, 20 of 21 monthly parts from May 1852 - January 1854 ( missing part 10 of February 1854). Uniform, yellow typographic covers, Addey publisher's lists generally found on rear cover and sometimes a publisher list for Chapman and Hall on its verso, Each volume unpaginated, generally 30-35 pages. Contains the first appearance of Dinah Marie Craik (aka Miss Mulock)'s THE LITTLE LYCHETTS. Editorship is unidentified in the magazine, but scholar Ruari McLean in "Joseph Cundall: A Victorian Publisher. (Pinner, UK: Private Libraries Association, 1976, page 75) includes The Charm Annuals in his list of Cundall books. In his entry for the first volume - The Charm 1853 - he notes: "Foreword signed 'J. C.'." He further notes, referring to the 1853 Annual that: "This was the publication in Annual form of a sixpenny monthly periodical edited by Cundall from 1852 to 1854." Indeed in the issue for January 1853, the editor notes that cloth covers for binding Volume 1 of THE CHARM are now ready and mat be had of all booksellers. Price 1s" We could not confirm that any library has these in discrete parts. We could find only one library Massey College, Robertson Davies Library, Toronto -- that lists its entry for The Charm as periodical, although the listing specifies 3 volumes, which might impliy binding as annuals. As a book entry, THE CHARM can be located in only four British libraries and Trinity in Dublin. The unaccredited editor's statement verso front cover Part 1 posits The Charm's purpose: "No periodical addressed to Young People, with any pretensions to first-class merit exists at the present time: still, we are led to believe that an entertaining and instructive work, carefully edited, and well illustrated, would be received with much favor" Called THE CHARM because of its intended charms of "variety. novelty.(and) art" The most notable literary feature in THE CHARM is the first appearance of Dinah Marie Craik (aka Miss or Mrs Mulock)'s THE LITTLE LYCHETTS in 13 chapters appearing from January 1853 through January 1854. (Sadly, the only part we are missing is for chapter 2 in the February 1853 issue), Craik is identified in the contents not by name but as "the author of 'A Hero' and 'Cola Monti' ", which are two of her early works. She remains best known for JOHN HALIFIX, GENTLEMAN (1857). THE LITTLE LYCHETTS first appeared in book form in 1859, published by George Routledge. Indeed, later in the 1850s, Routledge published several volumes which repackaged the stories from The Charm, in cloth-bound format, but printed in colours to imitate paper-bound yellowbacks. Besides Craik, other contributors to THE CHARM MAGAZINE were: Harriet Myrtle, Alfred Elwes, Frederica Graham, R. Reineck, J. H. Pepper, Madame de Chatelain, and Caroline Gilman. The 20 parts are decently preserved. Paper spines are flaking on some and one copy has a broken spine, a few covers have separated or loosened. Each "part" identified by Part number and month/year of publication, along with sixpence price bottom of front cover. The cover also carries the Addey imprint, an oval with a profile perhaps of Liberty. An almost complete set of a short-lived, Victorian juvenile magazine. Rare.
ADDRESS OF GEN. JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN AT THE DEDICATION OF THE MAINE MONUMENTS ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF GETTYSBURG, OCTOBER 3, 1893

ADDRESS OF GEN. JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN AT THE DEDICATION OF THE MAINE MONUMENTS ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF GETTYSBURG, OCTOBER 3, 1893 by Chamberlain, Joshua L.

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ADDRESS OF GEN. JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN AT THE DEDICATION OF THE MAINE MONUMENTS ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF GETTYSBURG, OCTOBER 3, 1893
Author
Chamberlain, Joshua L.
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
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Augusta: Maine Farmers' Almanac Press, 1895. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 15, [1 blank] pp. Title page lightly toned, Near Fine. Chamberlain's gallantry at Little Round Top saved the day for the Union at Gettysburg, and gained him a Congressional Medal of Honor, awarded to him in 1893. Chamberlain delivered identical remarks on 3 October 1889 at the dedication of the Monument to the 20th Maine. We have not found any historical evidence that he was present at Gettysburg on 3 October 1893, or that he delivered his Address in 1893. Why publication was delayed until 1895 is also unclear, but perhaps has something to do with the fact that the Gettysburg National Military Park was established that year. Perhaps a Chamberlain scholar can untie these knots. "In 1889, one of the most noted veterans of the battle of Gettysburg, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the former colonel of the 20th Maine Infantry, returned to the wooded slopes of Little Round Top to speak at the dedication of a monument to his former command. The simple stone monument marked the spot where his New Englanders had fought twenty-six years earlier on July 2, 1863. Chamberlain's remarks that day have become some of the most quoted of any speech given by a veteran of the battle." [ Vermilya, Daniel (November 9, 2017) "Veterans at Gettysburg", website of Blog of Gettysburg National Military Park, accessed June 2025.] His Address articulates an abstract, mystical ideal of Unity that purportedly animated northern troops. "Our thoughts were not then of States as States, but of the States united, - of that union and oneness in which the People of the United States lived and moved and had their being. . . In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear, but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision- place of souls. And reverent men and women from afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field to ponder and dream; And lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls." For Chamberlain, "The memory of the war - and remembering it - became an obsession. He regularly spoke and wrote about it for the rest of his life, even when busily serving as Governor of Maine or president of Bowdoin College. He argued about it with former comrades and foes alike. Chamberlain fiercely protected his own legend as the battle of Gettysburg's 'savior of Little Round Top.' In short, being a war hero became the key to Joshua Chamberlain's identity for the nearly fifty years he lived after the conflict ended" [Arrington, Todd (July 2, 2017) "'Something Abides': Joshua L. Chamberlain and Civil War Memory", Emerging Civil War website, accessed June 2025.] OCLC 4863675 [7 locations as of July 2025]. Not in Nevins or LCP. Not in Williamson's Bibliography of Maine, which was published in 1896. Not at AAS's online site.
Chronicle of the Cid

Chronicle of the Cid by [Southey, Robert, translator]

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Chronicle of the Cid
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[Southey, Robert, translator]
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Biblioctopus (United States)
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. First Edition. First edition in English, the first prose version in any language of the great Spanish realist epic, recounting the heroic life of El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, 1040-1099). 4to (261 x 213mm), pp. [2], [ii], [10], [iii]-xli, [1], map, 468. Rebound in old marbled wrappers matching the page edges. No half title, else complete with fly-titles, errata and advertisements, all notes, and the engraved map of Spain and Portugal. Interior clean but for a light damp stain to the margin of the map. Very good. A thorough rendering, describing the 11th-century deeds of the actual Castilian warrior known as El Cid during the period of the Reconquista that took back northern Spain from the Moors. Its source was the medieval saga Poema del Cid(Cantar del Mio Cid), written around 1140 as a metrical history by an unknown poet (the Homer of Spain), with the earliest surviving manuscript dating from 1207, preserved at Vivar, first published by Tomás Sánchez in 1779. This is the prose version, acclaimed around the world and not amalgamated or fully realized in a previous edition in any language. Southey drew partly from the 1552 Spanish Chronica del Famoso Cavallero Cid Ruydiez Compeador (based on a 13th-century manuscript), partly from the 1604 La Cronica General de España, partly from Corneille's 1637 French play Le Cid, and from other sources besides. Southey was 34 when he published this, already established as one of the Lake Poets but not yet Poet Laureate (that came in 1813). He had spent years teaching himself Spanish and Portuguese specifically to translate their medieval epics, driven by the conviction that England needed access to the heroic literature of the Iberian peninsula. He was right. The Chronicle became the standard English version and remained so for over a century, introducing El Cid to readers who knew him only vaguely as the subject of Corneille's drama or as a footnote in histories of the Reconquista. El Cid himself was a mercenary who fought for both Christian and Muslim rulers, a pragmatist in an era being retroactively simplified into a clash of civilizations. The medieval chronicles turned him into a paragon of Christian knighthood; Southey's translation preserves that mythology while letting enough historical detail through to complicate it. The result is a portrait of medieval Spain that is both more romantic and more real than anything available to English readers before 1808.
Lie Down in Darkness

Lie Down in Darkness by STYRON, William

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Lie Down in Darkness
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STYRON, William
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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951. First edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with just a touch of rubbing. A superb copy of the author's first book.
DIX PORTRAITS

DIX PORTRAITS by Stein, Gertrude; Thomson, Virgil; de Massot, Pierre

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DIX PORTRAITS
Author
Stein, Gertrude; Thomson, Virgil; de Massot, Pierre
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Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Near fine in very good plus jacket.
Description
Paris: Editions de la Montagne, 1930. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First trade edition of Stein's ten prose portraits, one of 400 numbered copies issued without lithographs. Stein's artist subjects include Guillaume Apollinaire, Christian Bérard, Eugene Berman, Bernard Faÿ, Georges Hugnet, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, Pavel Tchelitchew, Kristians Tonny, and Virgil Thomson, who would adapt Stein's methods to another medium and produce dozens of his own musical portraits over the coming decades. A well-preserved copy with both the original glassine and paper dust jacket. 9'' x 6.5''. Original cream wrappers. In original cream dust jacket and original glassine. Text in English and French. 85, [7] pages. Light edgewear. Small stain to jacket front panel corner. Toning and several tears/chips to glassine. Most leaves unopened.
ROTTEN ISLAND

ROTTEN ISLAND by Steig, William

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ROTTEN ISLAND
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Steig, William
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Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN
9780879235260
Condition
Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Description
Boston: David R. Godine, 1984. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed reissue, the first with this title, of this tale of an island full of horrible animals where a beautiful flower unexpectedly sprouts one day, first published as THE BAD ISLAND in 1969. William Steig has the distinction of being nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award - once as an artist, and once as an author. He has also earned a Caldecott Medal, and the adoration of children and adults for his beloved SHREK! and its associated films. 11'' x 8.5''. Original orange boards. Original unclipped ($12.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Signed by Steig to front flyleaf. Jacket with a touch of sunning to spine. Tight.
STAR

STAR by Steel, Danielle

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STAR
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Steel, Danielle
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Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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9780440500728
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Very good.
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New York: Delacorte Press, 1989. Very good.. Advance review copy of this 25th novel by the world's best-selling living author, the basis for a 1993 made-for-television movie starring Jennie Garth at the height of her celebrity. 9'' x 5.75''. Original grey wrappers with raised gilt lettering. 447, [1] pages. Bookplate mounted to inside front cover, with "Danielle Steel / Star" printed in gold and the author's signature in blue ink. Publication date hand-corrected from February to March 1989. Vertical creasing to spine; mild wear/creasing and slight peeling to covers.
Epistole et Evangeli che si Leggono Tutto L'Anno alle Messe: secondo l'uso della S. Romana Chiesa, et ordine del Messale Riformato. Tradotti in Lingua Toscana, dal M.R.P. M. Remigio Fiorentino, Dell'Ordine de'Predicatori.

Epistole et Evangeli che si Leggono Tutto L'Anno alle Messe: secondo l'uso della S. Romana Chiesa, et ordine del Messale Riformato. Tradotti in Lingua Toscana, dal M.R.P. M. Remigio Fiorentino, Dell'Ordine de'Predicatori. by Remigio Fiorentino, M.

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Epistole et Evangeli che si Leggono Tutto L'Anno alle Messe: secondo l'uso della S. Romana Chiesa, et ordine del Messale Riformato. Tradotti in Lingua Toscana, dal M.R.P. M. Remigio Fiorentino, Dell'Ordine de'Predicatori.
Author
Remigio Fiorentino, M.
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Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
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Fine
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Venice: Carlo Conzatti, 1665 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Octavo (8½x6 inches). Pp. [24], 471, [1]. Text in Italian. Title printed in red and black. Illustrated with 197 woodcuts throughout text, some of which appear more than once. Woodcuts are generally 2x1¼ inches or smaller, a few larger. Printer's woodcut device on last leaf. Bound in full contemporary vellum over boards, morocco spine label, gilt, red sprinkled edges. Front end affixed to pastedown, small marginal fragment torn from K8, repair to short tear at T7. One woodcut with two holes. Some light internal foxing, toning. A very good copy. The Epistles and Gospels to be read throughout the year, according to the Church services. Originally written by the Jesuit Petrus Canisius (although only the Translators are mentioned in the title). Remigio's real name was Remigio Nannini. He was born in Florence c. 1521. He was a Dominican friar, author of secular and religious works, editor and translator. He died in 1581. Epistole et Evangeli was his most popular work and was published and republished for more than 100 years. It is noteworthy because of its illustrations..
A Preliminary Report on a Part of the Gold Deposits of Georgia

A Preliminary Report on a Part of the Gold Deposits of Georgia by Yeates, W. S. (State Geologist); McCallie, S. W. (Assistant Geologist; King, Francis P. (Assistant Geologist)

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A Preliminary Report on a Part of the Gold Deposits of Georgia
Author
Yeates, W. S. (State Geologist); McCallie, S. W. (Assistant Geologist; King, Francis P. (Assistant Geologist)
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Americana Books ABAA (United States)
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Good
Description
Atlanta: Geo. W. Harrison, State Printer. Franklin Printing and Publishing Company, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. 542 pages. Tipped in label after right front flyleaf - "Compliments of W. S. Yeates, State Geologist." Frontispiece photograph of the White Path Gold Mine, Gilmer County, Georgia. Illustrated with 21 photograph plates, 7 maps, and numerous diagrams. Brown cloth hardcover with blind stamp borders on covers and gilt lettered title on spine. Marbled edges. Front hinge broken with exposed webbing. Small tear to the cloth spine. Light foxing to the end sheets. Page 87 and 88 have small holes from insect damage.
Biographical and Historical Sketches of Early Indiana

Biographical and Historical Sketches of Early Indiana by Woollen, William Wesley

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Biographical and Historical Sketches of Early Indiana
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Woollen, William Wesley
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Americana Books ABAA (United States)
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Good
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Indianapolis: Hammond & Co, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. viii, 568 pages. Frontispiece engraving of the author. Illustrated with portraits. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt stamped title on the spine. Light edge wear to the cloth extremities. Light to moderate scattered foxing to the text. Contents include biographies William Henry Harrison, Oliver Morton, Robert Dale Owen and many more.
York County Land Use Plan Adopted by the York County Board of Supervisors March 4, 1976

York County Land Use Plan Adopted by the York County Board of Supervisors March 4, 1976 by [York County, VA]

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York County Land Use Plan Adopted by the York County Board of Supervisors March 4, 1976
Author
[York County, VA]
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Americana Books ABAA (United States)
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Fair
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York County, Virginia: York County, Virginia, 1976. Soft cover. Fair. Oblong plastic spiral bound soft cover (14" x 8.5") 36 pages, 32 pages 'Appendix'. Illustrated with one folding plan. Light brown stains on the covers. Interior in good condition.
The Rich Are Always With Us

The Rich Are Always With Us by [Advertising – Great Depression – Publishing] Condé Nast

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The Rich Are Always With Us
Author
[Advertising – Great Depression – Publishing] Condé Nast
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Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Some wrinkles; near fine.
Description
United States, 1930. 12 ½ x 18 ¾ sheet. Some wrinkles; near fine.. A broadside soliciting advertisers for Condé Nast’s publications Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden, and The American Golfer. Printed following the 1929 crash, the broadside’s tactic is to portray Condé Nast magazines’ readers as the people who stay rich, or get even richer, during times of economic upheaval: the “Successful Class [which] profits first” because it contains the “ablest, the most ingenious, and the most ambitious people in the land.” “The time has come”, the broadside advises, “to re-sell them—hard.” We find no copies of this broadside in OCLC.
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A series of 15 offprints from the author. 1] Clinical and Experimental Studies on Adrenal Insufficiency ...., 37 pp., 1930; 2] Diagnosis and Treatment of Addison's Disease, 1931, 22 pp.; 3] Nervous System Mechanism for Epinephrine Secretion, [6] pp., 1946; 4] Experimental Production of Chronic and Sub-Acute Adrenal Insufficiency ...., [4] pp., 1932; 5] An Apparatus for Constant Intravascular Injection of Liquids, [4] pp.,, 1940; 6] Insulin Hypoglycemia and Epinephrine Output ...., [4] pp., 1940; 7] Experimental Pathology and Physiology of the Adrenal Cortex, 18 pp., 1945; 8] Contributions to Animal Experimentation ...., 10 pp., 1932; 9] Standardization of Adrenal Cortex Extract, 6 pp., 1943; 10] Vitamin C and Insulin Action, 4 pp., 1944; 11] The Role of Adrenals in Health and Disease, 6 pp., 1942; 12] Diagnosis of Addison's Disease ...., [36] - 42 pp., 1942; 13] Adrenal Cortex Therapy, 3 pp.; 14] Adrenal Function and Blood Electrolytes, 163 - 16 9pp., 1950; 15] Studies in Gastric Secretion ...., 623 - 627 pp. by Rogoff, Julius M - ADRENAL GLAND

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A series of 15 offprints from the author. 1] Clinical and Experimental Studies on Adrenal Insufficiency ...., 37 pp., 1930; 2] Diagnosis and Treatment of Addison's Disease, 1931, 22 pp.; 3] Nervous System Mechanism for Epinephrine Secretion, [6] pp., 1946; 4] Experimental Production of Chronic and Sub-Acute Adrenal Insufficiency ...., [4] pp., 1932; 5] An Apparatus for Constant Intravascular Injection of Liquids, [4] pp.,, 1940; 6] Insulin Hypoglycemia and Epinephrine Output ...., [4] pp., 1940; 7] Experimental Pathology and Physiology of the Adrenal Cortex, 18 pp., 1945; 8] Contributions to Animal Experimentation ...., 10 pp., 1932; 9] Standardization of Adrenal Cortex Extract, 6 pp., 1943; 10] Vitamin C and Insulin Action, 4 pp., 1944; 11] The Role of Adrenals in Health and Disease, 6 pp., 1942; 12] Diagnosis of Addison's Disease ...., [36] - 42 pp., 1942; 13] Adrenal Cortex Therapy, 3 pp.; 14] Adrenal Function and Blood Electrolytes, 163 - 16 9pp., 1950; 15] Studies in Gastric Secretion ...., 623 - 627 pp.
Author
Rogoff, Julius M - ADRENAL GLAND
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Fine.
Description
OFFPRINTS.. Original printed wrappers.. Fine.. 4to and 8vo. The author is known for his work and development of the first treatment for Addison's Disease.
Zbigniew Dlubak: “Systemy.”

Zbigniew Dlubak: “Systemy.” by (DLUBAK, Zbigniew)

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Zbigniew Dlubak: “Systemy.”
Author
(DLUBAK, Zbigniew)
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Three full-page black & white illus. 8 pp. 4to, printed wrappers, staple-bound. Warsaw: Galeria Remont, 1975. Very rare exhibition catalogue on the Polish photographer, painter, and theorist Dlubak (1921-2005); WorldCat does not record any copies in North America. The artist’s writings are presented in parallel English and Polish and three of his works are reproduced in-fine. In fine condition. With a photocopied interview with Dlubak laid-in.
History of the Conquest of Peru, with a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas

History of the Conquest of Peru, with a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas by Prescott, William H.

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History of the Conquest of Peru, with a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas
Author
Prescott, William H.
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Dawson's Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Good (hinges loose, sunned covers and spine, lightly foxed throughout)
Description
Harper and Brothers, New York, 1847. Good (hinges loose, sunned covers and spine, lightly foxed throughout) . First Edition 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, blindstamped cloth, Two Volumes. Owner's signature in ink.
Bookbinding for Amateurs: Being Descriptions Of The Various Tools & Appliances Required & Minute Instructions For Their Effective Use

Bookbinding for Amateurs: Being Descriptions Of The Various Tools & Appliances Required & Minute Instructions For Their Effective Use by CRANE, W. J. Eden

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Bookbinding for Amateurs: Being Descriptions Of The Various Tools & Appliances Required & Minute Instructions For Their Effective Use
Author
CRANE, W. J. Eden
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
A very good copy
Description
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1900. A very good copy. 12mo (18.8 x 12.5 mm). vi, [2], 184 (text); 13, [3] advertisements. Publisher's green cloth, black- and gilt-stamped (rear hinge cracked, endleaves browned, light wear at extremities). A comprehensive work on bookbinding for the amateur, its twenty-two chapters covering everything from materials, to folding, sewing, and finishing. The ads at end promote the 1900 edition of a book, thus providing the circa date of publication.
Autobiography

Autobiography by SANFORD, Fred R.

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Autobiography
Author
SANFORD, Fred R.
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
A fine copy
Description
San Francisco: Greenwood Press, 1971. A fine copy. 8vo (9.6 x 6.5 inches). 41, [1] pages. Original wrappers. Number 10 of 50 copies, printed by Jack Werner Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press on French Rivers paper. With a foreword by Sanford's son-in-law Robert L. Dunn.
The Model Airplane Mystery

The Model Airplane Mystery by Stoutenburg, Adrien

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The Model Airplane Mystery
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Stoutenburg, Adrien
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Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1943. Book. Illus. by Gertrude Howe. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE in such lovely collectible condition. Near Fine, a bit of toning to end pages, in a Near Fine dust jacket, a few small edge tears and chips. Illustrated end pages..
Autograph Letter Signed, Mobile, Alabama, January 19, 1846, to Frederick Huth & Co., [bankers] London pr “Hibernia”

Autograph Letter Signed, Mobile, Alabama, January 19, 1846, to Frederick Huth & Co., [bankers] London pr “Hibernia” by Eslava Murrell & Co.

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Autograph Letter Signed, Mobile, Alabama, January 19, 1846, to Frederick Huth & Co., [bankers] London pr “Hibernia”
Author
Eslava Murrell & Co.
Seller
Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description
Quarto, one page plus stamp less address leaf, and tipped in copy of a letter to Huth dated January 1, laid in. "… Our prices will continue to be governed by the state of our relations with England on the Oregon question and remain unsettled until that matter is definitely and amicably adjusted. Should Great Britain decline the 49th degree recently offd. by the U.S., peace between the two nations will no doubt be interrupted as this Government will not go below this line, therefore you will be able to judge from the tone of the English, whether we shall have an open rupture or not. …" Laid in is a partial copy of a letter from Mobile to Huth, dated January 1, 1846, mentioning a three-year contract with the French Government, and "unfavorable character of the advices" from England, having had "the effect to depress our cotton market … as the appearance of war will disappear, prices may be expected to recede to the Liverpool level…" The Eslava Murrell firm was founded by Don Miguel Eslava, son of a Spanish Royal Governor of Mobile before it was captured by US forces in 1813; during the Civil War, Eslava was agent for nearly all the blockade runners who evaded Union naval patrols to reach the Confederate port.
Costumbres Chilenas. Tomo Primero

Costumbres Chilenas. Tomo Primero by Vial, Roman

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Costumbres Chilenas. Tomo Primero
Author
Vial, Roman
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Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Spine ends and rear wrapper chipped and trimmed, volume number corrected on front wrapper, first signature loose, leaves browned
Description
Santiago: Imprenta Cervantes, 1907. Second edition. Paper wrappers. Spine ends and rear wrapper chipped and trimmed, volume number corrected on front wrapper, first signature loose, leaves browned.. 209, [1] pp. Palau 361637.
International Economic Survey. [Thirteen issues on Latin American Countries 1954-1958]

International Economic Survey. [Thirteen issues on Latin American Countries 1954-1958] by Chemical Corn Exchange Bank

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International Economic Survey. [Thirteen issues on Latin American Countries 1954-1958]
Author
Chemical Corn Exchange Bank
Seller
Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Pnecilled notations on front wrappers else very good copies.
Description
New York: Chemical Corn Exchange Bank, 1958. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Pnecilled notations on front wrappers else very good copies.. 8-12 pages each. Illus. with four maps. Sm. 4to. A look at American investment attitudes towards Latin America at the height of American idomination. Includes the following issues: Dominican Republic, No. 96, September 1954; Mexico, No. 97, November 1954; Venezuela, No. 103, August 1955; Dominican Republic, No. 105, December 1955; Peru, No. 107, March 1956; Ecuador, No. 109, June 1956; Cuba, No. 112, December 1956; Brazil, No. 113, February 1957; Venezuela, No. 115, May 1957; Mexico, No. 118, November 1957; Dominican Republic, No. 120, March 1958; Colombia, No. 123, September 1958; and Puerto Rico, No. 124, October 1958. OCLC locates only some scattered holdings Maps of Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and Dominican Republic.
Forms, Matter and Mind Three Strands in Plato's Metaphysics
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Forms, Matter and Mind Three Strands in Plato's Metaphysics by Ostenfeld, Erik Nis

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Forms, Matter and Mind Three Strands in Plato's Metaphysics
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Ostenfeld, Erik Nis
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Brattle Book Shop (United States)
ISBN
9789024730513
Condition
VeryGood
Description
The Hague/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff 1982. Hardcover. 9.5" x 6". XII, 348 pp. Publisher's cloth boards. No DJ, as issued. Rubbing and scuffing to boards; sunning to spine. VeryGood+. ISBN 9024730511. . VeryGood. Hardcover .
Captor - Captive

Captor - Captive by Williams, Joseph H

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Captor - Captive
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Williams, Joseph H
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Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
ISBN
9780961622008
Condition
Good
Description
Girtman Press, Jacksonville, Florida, 1986. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Signed. Softcover. Inscribed by the author on the first page. Non-authorial inscription on the title page. Minor wear with some foxing. Has a good binding, no marks or notations to the text.
The Social Evil: With Special Reference to Conditions Existing in the City of New York

The Social Evil: With Special Reference to Conditions Existing in the City of New York

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The Social Evil: With Special Reference to Conditions Existing in the City of New York
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Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. Cloth. Very Good +. A clean, sharp copy of the March 1902 2nd printing. Solid and VG+ to Near Fine in its navy-blue cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the spine. Internally very clean, with no writing or markings to speak of. Octavo, "A Report Prepared under the Direction of The Committee of Fifteen
Byzantine Enamels from the 5th to the 13th Century

Byzantine Enamels from the 5th to the 13th Century by Wessel, Klaus

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Byzantine Enamels from the 5th to the 13th Century
Author
Wessel, Klaus
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The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York Graphic Society Ltd. Greenwich, CT, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. VG in purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt design centered on front cover. Profusely illustrated; pp. 211, index; dimensions 11x 9. Art. ART105090.
Make Me Yours

Make Me Yours by Browne, Eleanore

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Make Me Yours
Author
Browne, Eleanore
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ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good+. (c.1934). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [quite a decent copy, the front hinge a bit weak but holding together, with a bit of wear along the top edge of the rear cover, slight fading at the spine]. "Marriage or Death! -- that was the decision that faced Perry Bannister, notorious Don Juan, when he is trapped into a meeting with five of his former flames: a film star who has a bodyguard of Mexican desperadoes; a girl noted as a good shot; a woman who is drunk enough to do something despearte; a married woman with a fierce husband; a dancer who portrays, symbolically, the act of strangling a man. Which of these has writen the note ordering him to propose to her before three o'clock in the morning?" Despite the presence of a movie star in the goings-on (by the name of "Avon Dawn"), this isn't really a "Hollywood novel" per se: most of the action takes place at Ms. Dawn's seaside estate in Ensenada, Mexico. (And despite the mention of her "Mexican desperado" bodyguards, it's never really made clear whether Avon Dawn herself is Mexican, although perhaps the reader was meant to intuit that from an early description of her as "both imperious and tempestuous.") The author (not to be confused with the modern-day novelist Eleanor Brown) cranked out a number of novels, mostly in the "women's fiction" vein for the rental-library market, during the 1930s -- although we should allow for the fact that "Eleanore Browne" may well have been a pseudonym (heck, "she" could have been the prolific and facile Jack Preston, for all I know). This title was later published as "The Immodest Maidens" in the Novel Library paperback series in 1949. .
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The Gourmet by Petrini, Frank

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The Gourmet
Author
Petrini, Frank
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
(San Francisco): Petrini's, 1950. Very good. First edition, n. d. (1950s); 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [1], 4-46; pictorial wraps in pink, red, and white; illustrated with small drawings; light age-toning to margins of wraps and minor cresing; small rubbed spot to lower right corner of back wrap (removed bookshop label); in about very good condition. It has been said that Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, etc. specialty grocery stores in the Bay Area "all owe at least some of their concept to the original upscale San Francisco grocery store: Petrini's." Founded in 1935 by Italian immigrant Frank Petrini, the Petrini's chain would boast "the largest meat preparation area ever created for a retail market." The current booklet featured numerous recipes for beef, pork, lamb, poultry, and seafood.
A Week in December

A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks

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A Week in December
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Sebastian Faulks
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780091794453
Condition
Fine
Description
Signed Limited Edition of which this is #910 of 1000; A fine book in a fine slipcase as issued. SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. A beautiful publication of this critically acclaimed book with no visible flaws. Ships in a sturdy box.
The Year Book of the Unitarian Congregational Churches for 1875 With Calendar Adapted For Use Throughout the Country

The Year Book of the Unitarian Congregational Churches for 1875 With Calendar Adapted For Use Throughout the Country by [American Unitarian Association]

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The Year Book of the Unitarian Congregational Churches for 1875 With Calendar Adapted For Use Throughout the Country
Author
[American Unitarian Association]
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Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
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Very good
Description
Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1875. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 60pp. Slight loss at spine ends, wraps rubbed and darkened, else very good.
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Wild Grape Brew: An Anthology from Chaparral Poets of the Santa Barbara Chapter of California Federation of Chaparral Poets. by [POETRY ANTHOLOGY].

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Wild Grape Brew: An Anthology from Chaparral Poets of the Santa Barbara Chapter of California Federation of Chaparral Poets.
Author
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY].
Seller
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description
Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Chapter of California Federation of Chaparral Poets, [c. 1945].. First edition.. [132 pp]. Spine lightly tanned, else near fine in printed wrappers with some rust to the binding pegs. SIGNED by Allen Holman Suggett at his contribution.
SHRINKING ORCHESTRA, POEMS.|THE

SHRINKING ORCHESTRA, POEMS.|THE by Wood, William

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SHRINKING ORCHESTRA, POEMS.|THE
Author
Wood, William
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Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. cloth, dust jacket. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, (ii), 50 pages. First edition. Top edge lightly spotted.

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